Bass buffo
The bass buffo , also known as play bass , is the name given to a character player with a common bass voice , which is used for cheerful roles in play operas and other semiseria or comic operas .
Characteristic
According to Rudolf Kloiber's description, which has been binding for artistic offices for many years , bass buffo is a term for a vocal subject in opera that is suitable for the opera parts concerned and that is specified in engagement contracts. There is no great difference in vocal type between the German bass buffo and its French and Italian counterparts, for example in the operas of Rossini and Donizetti .
Since the parts are rich in text (" Parlando "), they were mostly composed in a text-understandable baritone register. Some parts require the singer to go into his falsetto register .
Games (selection)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Bastien and Bastienne - Colas
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Zaide - Osmin
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio - Osmin
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The acting director - actor Buff
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro - Bartolo, Antonio
- Gioachino Rossini : Il barbiere di Siviglia - Bartolo, Basilio
- Heinrich Marschner : The Templar and the Jewess - Brother Tuck
- Franz Schubert : The Conspirators - Heribert
- Gaetano Donizetti : Don Pasquale - title role
- Albert Lortzing : Tsar and carpenter - van bed
- Albert Lortzing: The Wildschütz - Baculus
- Otto Nicolai : The merry women of Windsor - Falstaff
- Friedrich von Flotow : Martha - Lord Tristan Mickleford, Harriet's cousin
- Bedřich Smetana : The Bartered Bride - Kezal
- Peter Cornelius : The Barber of Baghdad - Abul Hassan Ali Ebn Bekar, barber
- Johann Strauss : The Gypsy Baron - Kálmán Zsupán, a rich pig farmer in the Banat
- Carl Millöcker : The beggar student - Colonel Ollendorf
literature
- Rudolf Kloiber: Handbook of the Opera . Original edition: Regensburg 1951.
- Bernd Göpfert: Voice types and role characters in German opera from 1815–1848 . Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel (1977). 260 pp.
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ Kálmán Zsupán's first actor, the comedian Alexander Girardi , was a play tenor : Strauss notated the part in the treble clef. In theater practice, a bass buffo has prevailed, for which the role has to be transposed down by a minor or major third.
- ↑ Colonel Ollendorf's first actor, the comedian Felix Schweighofer , was a baritone : Millöcker notated the entire part in the treble clef - as if for a tenor. In theater practice, a bass buffo has prevailed, for which the role has to be transposed down by a minor or major third.